Associations to the word «Hodgkin»

Wiktionary

HODGKIN, proper noun. A patronymic surname​.

Dictionary definition

HODGKIN, noun. English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866).
HODGKIN, noun. English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994).
HODGKIN, noun. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King